Mexican Ex-President Is Questioned

Updated July 3, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

A former Mexican president was called before a prosecutor to answer questions about two massacres during the country's "dirty war" against leftist insurgents, a person in the prosecutor's office said. The summoning of 80-year-old Luis Echeverria, president in 1970-76, marked the first time a Mexican president was required to appear before a prosecutor. A person from the office of the special prosecutor, Ignacio Carrillo, said Mr. Echeverria would be questioned in a closed hearing about two student massacres in 1968 and 1971 based on complaints presented by a committee of survivors. Mr. Echeverria arrived at...